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z/OS Connect

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Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Full ARRAY and STRUCT support in IMS Database Service Provider

We require IMS Database Service Provider services to support complex segments with (non-nested) ARRAY fields with many instances and many values per instance (which may be of different data types), using un-flattened array representation, with aut...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Top Down Workflow

We have a pure top down approach for zos / connect This means we have a yaml or json file with the api definition. Out of this definition zconbt should create structures and members. The developer should just code the empty gaps. zconbt should be ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Data Conversion issue for array elements in input - z/OS Connect

As per the testing at DNB, CHAR type of data variables gets converted to LOW-VALUES when they are missing from payload but the same CHAR type of variables are converted to ‘SPACES' when they are used as part of array in input and missing from payl...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor

rolling out and adoption of eclipse based IDZ IDE has been very difficult due to the size, complexity and performance, so is the z/OS Connect API editor
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Authentication and identity propagation for API Rest DB2

When using ZCEE, you already have a connection with a USERID identified by RACF. When you go to the Rest DB2 API, the only two ways to identify yourself to DB2 are Basic Authentication or passtickets. In these two cases, the user is hard coded.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect to stop dropping leading zeros from the response of a transaction with a COBOL copybook

z/OS Connect is dropping leading zeros from the response of a transaction with a COBOL copybook When the transaction is tested manually (message placed on the queue in IMS), the following is produced Input Message Format: LKD47 M 03303101010101140...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/os Connect to pass the terminal id or original ip address for securitu

z/OS Connect leaves the TERMID field of the RACROUTE VERIFY parm list blank. It should set it to the originating terminal name or IP Address.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

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